jul
Norwegian Nynorsk
/jʉːl/
noun-f1
Definitions
- Christmas, Christmastide
- Yule (Germanic celebration of the winter solstice)
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse jól (a midwinter festival, yule, midwinter season).
Origin
Old Norse
jól
Gloss
a midwinter festival, yule, midwinter season
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Yule English
- Yule log English
- Yulefest English
- Yulemonth English
- yuletide English
- gaudeō Latin
- jul Norwegian Bokmål
- *jehwlą Proto-Germanic
- dag Norwegian Nynorsk
- e Norwegian Nynorsk
- jol Norwegian Nynorsk
- juledag Norwegian Nynorsk
- julekort Norwegian Nynorsk
- julemat Norwegian Nynorsk
- julemiddag Norwegian Nynorsk
- julepresang Norwegian Nynorsk
- julestemning Norwegian Nynorsk
- juletid Norwegian Nynorsk
- juletre Norwegian Nynorsk
- kort Norwegian Nynorsk
- mat Norwegian Nynorsk
- middag Norwegian Nynorsk
- presang Norwegian Nynorsk
- stemning Norwegian Nynorsk
- tid Norwegian Nynorsk
- tre Norwegian Nynorsk
- ġeōl Old English
- yol Middle English
- jól Old Norse
- jul Danish
- joli Old French
- jól Icelandic
- jól Faroese
- iūl Old Swedish
- joulu Ingrian